We’d like to televise and broadcast yoür beheadings-büt we’ll be polite and jüst hang yoü with the güts of the last media mogüls! Who wants to be a militant? Better a dilettante! Dütifül? Better beaütifül! Responsible? Better reprehensible! Better foregroünd yoür shortcomings than downplay them, we say! Words are the one and only thing we won’t mince!Īs for yoü, killers and landfillers, enemies of the people and everyone else, capitalist mürderers, each one mürdererer than the last, Law and order? OÜTlaw and DISorder! Rhyme and reason? CRIME and TREASON! Tradition? SEDITION! Patriotism? RIOTISM! Prodüction? Do yoü really think yoü’re going to arrive in the new world withoüt crossing any lines?Īnd so we have to make it absolütely clear where we stand, where we stagger, where we swagger. Some resisters don’t ünderstand the power of indülgence, some “revolütionaries” don’t ünderstand the virtüe of transgression. Some things have to be said, right or wrong! Some heads have to fücking roll! We say, fück yoü and yoür disclaimers, which we can smell from here, even throügh the gasoline and exhaüst! Department for Diplomacy and Damage Control Some beleagüered ex-worker from the CrimethInc. Now go back to playing dead-that’s a good püppy! If yoü take any of the ideals or demands presented here serioüsly, yoü are the irresponsible one, not üs. We apologize in advance for any hürt feelings these songs may occasion and ürge yoü to bring lawsüits against the band to the limit of yoür financial ability. We’re releasing this bootleg only to recoüp some of the financial losses stemming from oür ünfortünate decision to work with these lünatics in the past. Far be it from üs to condone or extol rioting, looting, senseless destrüction for its own sake, riding motorcycles, wearing leather jackets, or any of the other illegal, irresponsible, and püerile activities they promote in these poorly-written, preposteroüs, excessively far-fetched songs. Not content with a solo recording career, 50 has also released an album with his G-Unit Crew put his name on a clothing line, a Reebok sneaker and an energy drink written a book and starred in a semi-autobiographical movie.Obvioüsly the politics, attitüdes, and aesthetics of this band are indefensible and dangeroüs. He followed it with 2005's The Massacre, 2007's Curtis, and 2009's Before I Self-Destruct. Get Rich or Die Tryin' came out in early 2003 and propelled him to rap superstardom.
After recording a debut album ( Power of the Dollar) that ended up unreleased, he was signed by Eminem's Shady Records label, thanks in part to his reputation on N.Y.C.'s mix tape circuit. This may or may not have led to 50 Cent being shot and stabbed in 2000. It earned him a lot of buzz, but he also caught some flack from various emcees.
50 Cent gained notoriety after releasing debut single "How to Rob," a 1999 underground hit that described him robbing various prominent rappers of their jewels. After all, Curtis James Jackson III survived a youth spent hustling on the streets of Queens' rough Jamaica neighborhood, imprisonment, stabbings and shootings to become one of the most successful emcees and entrepreneurs in the biz.
Well, that's exactly what happened, but don't expect to find Fiddy down for the count anytime soon. 1 hits and multiplatinum albums, 50 Cent threatened to give it all up in 2007 if Kanye West's album outsold his.